ASHES/ASHES is pleased to present Bradford Kessler’s Selected Wall Works 2013–2015. The exhibition will be on view May 21 – June 13, 2021 with an opening on Friday, May 21st from 4–8pm. Gallery hours are Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6pm.
First conceived while Kessler was a graduate student at the School of Visual Arts (New York, NY), these shaped panel works were subsequently shown at New York galleries and project spaces. For this exhibition, early works from Kessler's series New Icons (2013–2015) are presented collectively at ASHES/ASHES for the first time.
Bradford Kessler (born 1982; High Plains, Kansas) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo and group exhibitions include: Istaqsinaayok, Kunsthalle Wichita (Wichita, KS); Become Gift, Sky Become Shadow, Interstate Projects (Brooklyn, NY); They Who Walk Behind the Rows, False Flag Projects (Long Island City, NY); Prince Drama XV, 15 Orient (Brooklyn, NY); Exit Soul, Liberal Arts Roxbury (Roxbury, NY); Antifaratu, Galería Mascota (Mexico City, MX); MISERERE Paraphrase, Holiday Forever (Jackson, WY); Metropolitan Book of the Dead, Valentin (Paris, France); Ready to Drop, Springsteen Gallery (Baltimore, MD); Anxiety Social Club, ASHES/ASHES (Los Angeles, CA).